Drafts of state-authored history textbooks that the South Korean government plans to introduce next year highlight the wartime mobilization of Korean “comfort women” who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels, Lee Joon-sik, deputy prime minister and education minister, has announced. The textbooks, ...

The South Korean government has approved an intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan, moving the pact a step closer to fruition as North Korea continues to make progress in its nuclear weapons and missile programs, a report said Tuesday. The approval of the General Security of ...

Four former “comfort women” called on the Japanese government Friday to make a formal apology and offer compensation to fellow victims in other countries, while rejecting a December agreement between Japan and South Korea that was designed to permanently settle the issue. The call ...

South Korean President Park Geun-hye scrambled to head off a mounting political scandal by replacing her prime minister and finance chief Wednesday, raising concerns over the future of a key trilateral summit slated for later this year. Park’s administration has been rocked by the ...

A nonprofit organization that runs the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace received a bomb threat earlier this month, it said on its website Sunday. The museum, in Shinjuku Ward, displays material on the “comfort women,” Japan’s euphemism for those who were forced ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga expressed disappointment Monday at the unveiling of a memorial in Shanghai symbolizing women forced to work in wartime brothels for the Japanese military. “An action like this cannot be said to contribute to an improvement in Japan-China relations, and ...

Two statues of young girls symbolizing the so-called comfort women who were forced to serve as prostitutes for Japanese troops before and during World War II were unveiled in Shanghai in a ceremony held on Saturday. The side-by-side statues were commissioned jointly by private ...

A South Korean foundation established under a December 2015 agreement between Japan and South Korea has started distributing cash grants to wartime “comfort women,” sources related to the foundation revealed Friday. The payments by the foundation, set up in late July, mark the full ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday the government “is not at all considering” issuing apology letters to Korean women forced to work in wartime brothels for the Japanese military, citing the deal cut between Tokyo and Seoul late last year aimed at irrevocably settling ...

Japan does not believe it needs to do more to settle the issue of Korean “comfort women” over and above the deal already struck, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday after Seoul requested additional measures to address the victims’ feelings. “Japan believes that there ...